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The Rest of the World Report | October 19, 2026 — Evening Edition · The Rest of the World Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Good evening from Paris.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Rudy Martinez with The Rest of the World Report for Monday evening, October 19th.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mohammed Mohber,
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  SPEAKER_00: an advisor to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khomeini,
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  SPEAKER_00: says Iran will hit the bases of nine countries if
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  SPEAKER_00: the United States strikes Iranian military bases or petrochemical facilities again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Iran's chief of staff warns separately that the next miscalculation
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  SPEAKER_00: against Iran will bring more severe responses than before.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Revolutionary Guards said another oil tanker caught fire on the Strait of Hormuz
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  SPEAKER_00: after hitting a mine.
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  SPEAKER_00: It has not been independently verified.
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  SPEAKER_00: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov landed in Tehran on Monday afternoon.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's his first visit to Iran since February 2025,
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  SPEAKER_00: and his first since the United States-Israeli War began on Iran.
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  SPEAKER_00: He came from Bahrain,
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  SPEAKER_00: where on Sunday he attended a strategic dialogue between Russia and
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  SPEAKER_00: the Gulf Cooperation Council.
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  SPEAKER_00: Council members urged him to use Moscow's influence with Tehran to press
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  SPEAKER_00: for serious dialogue and restore shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
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  SPEAKER_00: The council's secretary general said its six member states have faced more
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  SPEAKER_00: than 7,000 Iranian missiles and drones since the war began.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Tehran, Lavrov met Foreign Minister Abbas Raggi and later President Massoud Pazeshkin.
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  SPEAKER_00: Larachki blamed the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: and Israeli aggression for the insecurity around the Strait of Hormuz
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  SPEAKER_00: and said regional problems have no military solution.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lavrov said Russia is committed to its 20-year strategic partnership agreement
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  SPEAKER_00: with Iran, which took effect on October 2nd.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said Russian specialists would gradually return to the Bashir nuclear power plant
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  SPEAKER_00: after leaving during the war.
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  SPEAKER_00: He linked restored navigation in the Strait with protection for Iran against renewed attacks.
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  SPEAKER_00: He also expressed support for the Memorandum of Understanding Iran and
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  SPEAKER_00: the United States signed in June,
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  SPEAKER_00: which later collapsed as a framework for reducing tension.
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  SPEAKER_00: Iran says it wants a return to that agreement.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nikita Smagin,
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  SPEAKER_00: an analyst of Iran and Russia's roles in the Middle East,
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  SPEAKER_00: said the near simultaneous visits to the Gulf and Tehran are a deliberate signal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moscow wants to show it deals with all these countries on broadly equal terms.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said Russia has a partial interest in the war continuing
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  SPEAKER_00: because higher oil prices and the loss of Iranian oil to China benefit Moscow.
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  SPEAKER_00: He also said its leverage over either Iran or the United States is limited.
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  SPEAKER_00: US media have cited intelligence reports that Russia
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  SPEAKER_00: and China are giving Iran satellite imagery for targeting and weapons components.
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  SPEAKER_00: President Donald Trump said last week that Moscow and Beijing would have too much
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  SPEAKER_00: to lose by helping Iran.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Yemen,
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  SPEAKER_00: officials said Houthi ballistic missiles A worker
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  SPEAKER_00: and two consultants said government agencies in Riyadh have told employees to work
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  SPEAKER_00: from home starting Monday as the city comes under repeated attack from Yemen.
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  SPEAKER_00: An advisor to Iran's supreme leader said Iran will hit the bases of nine countries.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says it will do so if the United States strikes Iranian bases
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  SPEAKER_00: or petrochemical facilities again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Russia's foreign minister is in Tehran for the first time since the war began,
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  SPEAKER_00: and Moscow is presenting itself as a mediator.
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  SPEAKER_00: Houthi missiles killed at least 58 recruits in Yemen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Egypt's parliament has postponed until October 26th a vote on whether to authorize
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  SPEAKER_00: the military to help defend Saudi Arabia if the kingdom asks for support.
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  SPEAKER_00: The pledge follows near-daily Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia since early October.
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  SPEAKER_00: The deadliest was at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh,
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  SPEAKER_00: which killed and injured hundreds, including an Egyptian flight attendant.
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  SPEAKER_00: President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi asked Parliament to authorize action
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  SPEAKER_00: if Egypt is asked, including air defense forces and logistical support.
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  SPEAKER_00: Egypt's National Defense Council pledged all necessary and possible support on Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Neither statement said how many troops might be sent or for how long.
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  SPEAKER_00: Approval would give Sisi the legal authority to deploy troops
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  SPEAKER_00: but would not send them automatically.
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  SPEAKER_00: No formal Saudi request has been announced.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Constitution requires two-thirds of the 596-member House,
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  SPEAKER_00: or 398 votes, before troops can be sent on a combat mission abroad.
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  SPEAKER_00: The four main pro-government parties won 403 of the 568 elected seats in
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  SPEAKER_00: the last year's elections.
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  SPEAKER_00: The vote was first pushed from Sunday to Tuesday amid reports of heated debate in
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  SPEAKER_00: the House, then postponed again on Monday afternoon for a week.
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  SPEAKER_00: About 300 members asked to speak in closed sessions, according to local media.
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  SPEAKER_00: Three said they would abstain.
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  SPEAKER_00: The largest pro-government party, the Waft and the Salafist Noor Party, backed the request.
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  SPEAKER_00: Supporters point to the cost to the Suez Canal of Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping
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  SPEAKER_00: and to Saudi financial support.
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  SPEAKER_00: A $5.3 billion Saudi-deposited Egypt Central Bank matures this month.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Cairo faces a potentially costly repayment unless Riyadh agrees to roll it over.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Egyptian Social Democratic Party told its members to abstain,
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  SPEAKER_00: saying military participation must not become an open-ended commitment.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Constitution Party called for clearly defined objectives, limits, and conditions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amon Noor, the exiled leader of the God Party, listed 10 safeguards.
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  SPEAKER_00: They include a fixed duration and a defined geographic scope.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said the authorization is not a blank check.
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  SPEAKER_00: He cited Egypt's intervention in Yemen in the 1960s, which many Egyptians call Egypt's Vietnam.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lawmaker Reda Abdul Salam proposed limiting any deployment
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  SPEAKER_00: to defending Saudi territory and critical infrastructure
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  SPEAKER_00: while avoiding combat inside Yemen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Al-Azhar,
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  SPEAKER_00: Egypt's highest seat of Sunni leaning,
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  SPEAKER_00: called for an immediate halt to the fighting and proposed a mediation committee.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know is is that Egypt's parliament has put off
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  SPEAKER_00: until October 26th a vote on letting the military help defend Saudi Arabia
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  SPEAKER_00: from Houthi attacks.
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  SPEAKER_00: Egypt would act only if Saudi Arabia asks and no formal request has been announced.
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  SPEAKER_00: The delay followed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Reports of heated debate and some parties want clear limits of any deployment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Saudi Arabia holds billions of dollars in deposits at Egypt's central bank.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mississippi's Attorney General has found that the police officer who shot
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  SPEAKER_00: and killed one-year-old Cohen Wiley was justified in using force.
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  SPEAKER_00: Attorney General Lynn Fitch's office announced the finding on Monday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Its statement said the office, quote,
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  SPEAKER_00: found the use of force was justified,
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  SPEAKER_00: close quote,
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  SPEAKER_00: in a June 14th incident in Senatobia involving one officer with
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  SPEAKER_00: the Senatobia Police Department.
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  SPEAKER_00: The review followed an investigation by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Senatobia, is a town about 40 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee.
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  SPEAKER_00: Officers were responding to a shoplifting call at a Walmart.
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  SPEAKER_00: The call alleged that Cohen's mother,
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  SPEAKER_00: Valencia Wiley, and her friend Latoya Farrell had stolen diapers.
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  SPEAKER_00: The woman left the store with Cohen, got into a car, and began to drive away.
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  SPEAKER_00: One officer fired into the car, Cohen was killed, and a bullet also wounded Farrell.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation said that day that the car drove toward officers.
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  SPEAKER_00: In a video released days after the shooting,
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  SPEAKER_00: Bilesia Wiley denied that she or her friend stole anything.
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  SPEAKER_00: She disputed that the car headed toward the officers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ben Crump,
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  SPEAKER_00: the civil rights attorney representing the family,
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  SPEAKER_00: has said a preliminary independent autopsy indicates Cohen was shot from the side of
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  SPEAKER_00: the car, not the front.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Mississippi Department of Public Safety has released neither
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  SPEAKER_00: the body camera footage nor the overhead video from the Walmart parking lot.
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  SPEAKER_00: A department spokesperson says the video surveillance footage of
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  SPEAKER_00: the shooting will be released shortly to media organizations
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  SPEAKER_00: through public records requests.
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  SPEAKER_00: A short bystander clip posted online soon after the shooting shows neither
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  SPEAKER_00: the shots being fired nor the car driving toward the officers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Neither woman has been charged with a crime and
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  SPEAKER_00: the officials have not released any evidence of shoplifting.
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  SPEAKER_00: The officer identified as the subject of the investigation is Hunter Foster.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is white.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cohen and both women are black.
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  SPEAKER_00: In July,
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  SPEAKER_00: internal complaints showed that Foster had been accused of making
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  SPEAKER_00: a racially offensive remark to a co-worker days before the shooting.
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  SPEAKER_00: Two earlier misconduct cases involving him surfaced after the shooting.
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  SPEAKER_00: One was dismissed.
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  SPEAKER_00: The other ended in a confidential settlement.
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  SPEAKER_00: In September,
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  SPEAKER_00: Senatobia fired its police chief,
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  SPEAKER_00: Harold Vanderford,
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  SPEAKER_00: after news reports about racist text messages in which he used slurs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Last year,
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  SPEAKER_00: a Senatobia officer pulled a black woman from her car and What American readers need
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  SPEAKER_00: to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mississippi's Attorney General has found that
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  SPEAKER_00: a Senatobia police officer was justified in firing into a car in June killing
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  SPEAKER_00: a one-year-old
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  SPEAKER_00: The body camera and parking lot video have not been released,
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  SPEAKER_00: and the state says they will be released to media through records requests.
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  SPEAKER_00: Neither woman in the car has been charged.
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  SPEAKER_00: The family's attorney says a preliminary autopsy shows Cohen was shot from the side of the car.
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  SPEAKER_00: A Kenyan court has convicted a cult leader and 28 associates of murdering 191 people.
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  SPEAKER_00: 190 of them are children.
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  SPEAKER_00: The High Court in Mombasa delivered the verdict on Monday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Paul and Thenge McKenzie,
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  SPEAKER_00: a self-proclaimed pastor, and the others will be sentenced on November 6th.
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  SPEAKER_00: They had pleaded not guilty.
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  SPEAKER_00: They also denied charges in other cases,
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  SPEAKER_00: including terrorism,
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  SPEAKER_00: radicalization, and stopping children from attaining an education.
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  SPEAKER_00: McKenzie was a taxi driver in Nairobi
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  SPEAKER_00: before he founded Good News International Ministries with his wife in 2003 in
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  SPEAKER_00: the coastal city of Malindi.
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  SPEAKER_00: The church drew thousands of followers across its branches in Kenya,
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  SPEAKER_00: and ran its own television station.
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  SPEAKER_00: McKenzie condemned education and forbade children from attending school.
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  SPEAKER_00: He banned his followers from using medication,
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  SPEAKER_00: saying it was against church doctrine,
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  SPEAKER_00: and encouraged them to burn their birth certificates and digital IDs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Authorities began to scrutinize the church in the late 2010s.
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  SPEAKER_00: After the church and its television stations were forced to shut down in 2019,
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  SPEAKER_00: McKenzie moved to the Shakahola Forest in Califi County,
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  SPEAKER_00: about 70 kilometers from Malindy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some followers moved with him and lived in mud houses.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 2023, a man whose wife and daughter had moved to the forest tipped off authorities.
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  SPEAKER_00: Police found shallow mass graves.
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  SPEAKER_00: They also found dozens of emaciated survivors.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some told police that McKenzie had ordered them to starve themselves until they meet Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Survivors said children were to starve first,
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  SPEAKER_00: followed by unmarried women, then men, and then finally church leaders.
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  SPEAKER_00: McKenzie is not believed to have starved himself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course not.
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  SPEAKER_00: Most of the bodies exhumed were children.
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  SPEAKER_00: Authorities said some victims also died of strangulation or blunt trauma,
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  SPEAKER_00: and that some people who tried to leave were attacked.
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  SPEAKER_00: Others were found with their hands and legs bound together.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights put the death toll at 429.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hundreds are still declared missing.
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  SPEAKER_00: In January 2024,
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  SPEAKER_00: McKenzie was charged with 191 counts of murder and his church was banned as
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  SPEAKER_00: an organized criminal group.
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  SPEAKER_00: While in jail, he was accused of involvement in another 52 deaths.
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  SPEAKER_00: Officials said he was luring more victims to their deaths by writing notes from his prison cell.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know,
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  SPEAKER_00: a Kenyan court on Monday convicted a church leader and 28 associates
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  SPEAKER_00: of murdering 191 people.
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  SPEAKER_00: 190 of them were children.
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  SPEAKER_00: Authorities accused him of running a mass starvation campaign in the Chacahola Forest.
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  SPEAKER_00: A total of 429 deaths have been reported and hundreds of people are still missing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sentencing is set for November 6th.
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  SPEAKER_00: A grass fire swept through a live fire training exercise at a Canadian military base
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  SPEAKER_00: in Alberta on Sunday, killing four soldiers and injuring 39 others.
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  SPEAKER_00: Prime Minister Mark Carney told Parliament on Monday
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  SPEAKER_00: that 50 investigators are examining the fire at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Canadian Forces National Investigation Service is leading the investigation
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  SPEAKER_00: with support from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
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  SPEAKER_00: Carney said the fire jumped nearly a kilometer in less than a minute to
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  SPEAKER_00: where soldiers were gathered.
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  SPEAKER_00: Investigators have not determined what ignited it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nineteen of the injured were in critical condition as of Monday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Opposition leader Pierre Polivert The
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  SPEAKER_00: fire overtook soldiers from
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  SPEAKER_00: the 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry and Army Reservists.
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  SPEAKER_00: About 84 soldiers from Charlie Company were training at two locations.
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  SPEAKER_00: One was for throwing grenades,
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  SPEAKER_00: the other was for practicing attacks on simulated enemy positions.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fire swept into the second area.
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  SPEAKER_00: The soldiers,
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  SPEAKER_00: We're preparing for a mission next spring to reinforce Canadian troops serving
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  SPEAKER_00: with NATO in Latvia.
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  SPEAKER_00: Major General Wade Rutland said on Sunday that military officials knew about the fire for hours.
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  SPEAKER_00: They believed it was contained and allowed training to continue before
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  SPEAKER_00: the winds suddenly shifted.
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  SPEAKER_00: Investigators will examine whether winds drove the flames toward the soldiers or
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  SPEAKER_00: whether the fire spread unseen through vegetation.
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  SPEAKER_00: They will also examine whether military safety procedures need to change.
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  SPEAKER_00: The military identified the dead as Sergeant Morgan Wong of Edmonton,
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  SPEAKER_00: Private Sean Farrell of Prince Albert,
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  SPEAKER_00: Saskatchewan,
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  SPEAKER_00: Private Aidan Golding of North Vancouver,
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  SPEAKER_00: British Columbia, and Private Hayden Lickamark of Langley, British Columbia.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kearney ordered flags lowered to half-staff on federal buildings on Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know is that a grass fire swept through
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  SPEAKER_00: a live fire training exercise at a Canadian military base in Alberta on Saturday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Four soldiers were killed and 39 injured.
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  SPEAKER_00: A military official says officials knew about the fire for hours before the wind shifted.
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  SPEAKER_00: Canada's Prime Minister says investigators will determine the cause.
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  SPEAKER_00: The United Nations Office for the Coordination
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  SPEAKER_00: of Humanitarian Affairs recorded 41 humanitarian missions in Gaza
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  SPEAKER_00: that needed Israeli coordination in the first 13 days of October.
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  SPEAKER_00: 22 went without impediment.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 16 more,
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  SPEAKER_00: Israeli authorities accepted the request,
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  SPEAKER_00: but the movement on the ground was blocked or delayed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some of those missions were aborted or only partly completed, and two requests were denied.
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  SPEAKER_00: One was withdrawn by the organization that made it.
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  SPEAKER_00: In September,
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  SPEAKER_00: the office recorded 130 missions and 94 went ahead without impediment,
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  SPEAKER_00: 26 were impeded, four were denied, and six were withdrawn.
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  SPEAKER_00: The office's latest snapshot is dated October 14th,
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  SPEAKER_00: It gives Gaza's Ministry of Health figures at 74,392 Palestinians killed
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  SPEAKER_00: and 175,440 injured since October 2023.
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  SPEAKER_00: The ministry has identified 74,237 of those deaths as of October 7th.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of them, 35,555 were men, 21,976 were children, 11,301 were women, and 5,405 were elderly.
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  SPEAKER_00: For Israel,
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  SPEAKER_00: the office reports over 1,200 killed,
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  SPEAKER_00: according to Israeli media citing official sources.
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  SPEAKER_00: That includes October 7, 2023, and its immediate aftermath.
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  SPEAKER_00: It also reports 474 Israeli soldiers killed and 3,004 injured since
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  SPEAKER_00: the ground operation in Gaza began, citing the Israeli military website.
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  SPEAKER_00: As of October 14,
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  SPEAKER_00: 316 of Gaza's 670 health facilities were functioning at least partially,
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  SPEAKER_00: and 43 of those were functioning fully.
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  SPEAKER_00: Since the ceasefire was announced on October 10,
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  SPEAKER_00: 2025, 3,428 patients and 5,695 companions have been evacuated.
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  SPEAKER_00: They left through the Rafa or Karam Shalom crossings with support from
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  SPEAKER_00: the World Health Organization as of October 13.
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  SPEAKER_00: The World Health Organization estimated in May that more than 43,000 of
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  SPEAKER_00: the people injured since October 2023 have potentially life-changing injuries.
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  SPEAKER_00: About 1.98 million people That's 94% of Gaza's population need shelter
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  SPEAKER_00: and non-food item assistance.
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  SPEAKER_00: More than 950,000 people live in 989 displacement sites at medium or high risk
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  SPEAKER_00: of flooding, according to an assessment as of September 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: More than 400,000 of them are at 451 sites rated high risk.
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  SPEAKER_00: More than 2,800 children aged six months to 59 months were admitted for malnutrition
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  SPEAKER_00: in September.
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  SPEAKER_00: More than 360 of them had severe acute malnutrition.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know is that
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  SPEAKER_00: the United Nations says 41 humanitarian missions in Gaza needed Israeli coordination
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  SPEAKER_00: in the first 13 days of October.
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  SPEAKER_00: 22 went ahead without impediment.
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  SPEAKER_00: It reports 74,392 Palestinians killed and 175,440 injured since October 2023,
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  SPEAKER_00: figures from Gaza's Ministry of Health.
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  SPEAKER_00: More than 950,000 people live in displacement sites at risk of flooding.
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  SPEAKER_00: And finally, a rumor that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has died is spreading online.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is only a rumor.
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  SPEAKER_00: It began with a post on X by Won Joon-ji, chairman of the China Democracy Party.
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  SPEAKER_00: No credible evidence has confirmed any part of the claim,
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  SPEAKER_00: and North Korea's main state news site has posted no update on Kim's health.
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  SPEAKER_00: We will update this brief if that changes.